{"id":1541,"date":"2007-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/17\/symantec-unveils-anti-botware\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:33","slug":"symantec-unveils-anti-botware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/17\/symantec-unveils-anti-botware\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec Unveils Anti-Botware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be the start of a whole new security product category, anti-botware: Symantec will roll out Norton AntiBot, a real-time bot detection and removal software package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antivirus and anti-spyware packages typically are unable to catch or protect client machines from advanced botnet infections &#8212; signature-based technology can&#8217;t keep up with botnets that are constantly reinventing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Kim, director of product management for Symantec, says the company&#8217;s new software is a stand-alone package that adds another layer of protection and works with existing AV products either from Symantec or other vendors.  &#8220;Other behavioral [technologies] use emulation and create a secure sandbox where they allow the threat to run, but that tends to be resource-intensive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Symantec recently reported that there were over 6 million active bots during the last six months of 2006, a nearly 30 percent increase from the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Enderle, principal with the Enderle Group, says the Symantec product is the only one he&#8217;s aware of that can &#8220;maintain a high hit rate&#8221; on constantly evolving and obfuscating bots.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=129169&#038;WT.svl=news1_1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}